MAIN PURPOSE
· Serve as a foundation to drive business in Asia Pacific and contribute to company growth by providing competent, skilled, professional legal services
· Provide legal services to minimize the legal & business risks and to secure the compliance of the group companies
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Shiseido is looking for a Mid-level Legal Counsel with experience in Privacy & Data Protection and Compliance matters to be part of the Legal and Risk Management Team.
1. Privacy & Data Protection Work
· Advise on privacy and data protection matters.
· Draft, review and negotiate personal data protection clauses, data processing agreements/templates, privacy notices, etc.
· Review, develop and oversee the company’s policies on privacy and data protection program.
· Conduct internal privacy assessments and compliance examinations, including privacy impact assessments, transfer impact assessment, and third-party risk management reviews.
· Evaluate, implement and monitor internal privacy and data protection compliance policies.
· Provide privacy and data protection training to relevant employees.
· Monitor legal and regulatory developments in data protection to anticipate emerging trends, spot issues, and help the company tomake informed strategic decisions.
2. Risk Management Function and other Compliance Work
· Supporting cross-functional risk management, or crisis response in the region.
· Identifying and analysing various risks in the region, evaluate the gravity of each risk by considering its consequences.
· Evaluate employees’ risk awareness and develop, coordinate, present risk management training across the region.
· Advise on compliance and ethics issues.
· Implement and manage the legal compliance programmes to mitigate risk.
· Provide compliance training to relevant employees.
3. Legal Support Function
· Negotiating, drafting and reviewing contracts and other legal documents when assigned
· Other duties as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS
· LLB degree or equivalent, more than 5 years of experience in a law firm or in house in a privacy-focused role
· Preferred but not mandatory:
o Mix of law firm and in-house experience
o In-house experience in a retail environment
· Ability to work independently and with cross-functional teams.
· Highly analytical with strong attention to detail.
· Demonstrated ability to create legal defensive or proactive strategies.
· High degree of professional ethics and integrity.
· Sound judgement and ability to analyse situations and information.
· Outstanding communication skills.
PLEASE NOTE
Interested applicants, please apply directly via Shiseido's career page using the link right below for faster processing of your application. Thank you.
URL: https://careers.shiseido.com/job/Singapore-Asia-Pacific-Regional-Legal-Manager-01/1088834901/
